Oil Movies

Two technicians foreign oil, along with the daughter of one of them, coming into the country to verify that there is a large oil field in the jungle...

America is addicted to oil. President George Bush said so… and now that phrase is echoed everywhere. But are we really “addicted”?...

An oil boom has drawn thousands to America’s Northern Plains in search of work. Against the backdrop of a cruel North Dakota winter, the...

The work of an oil-drilling crew. Audiences will relish this tale of tough roustabouts who bulldoze a wilderness in a push for liquid wealth.

A documentary about the psychological costs of working in Alberta's oil sands and the mental health crisis that's been ignored for a decade.

oil workers, builders, geologists

A compelling documentary film four years in the making, The Pipe tells the story of the small Rossport community which has taken on the might of...

Black Snake Killaz is a feature-length documentary film about the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. This film explores actions taken by water...

Documentary telling the story of the shale oil industry and its lasting impact on the community of West Lothian. Presented by geologist Professor...

Through the eyes of ex-engineer, now filmmaker Gillian McKercher, Orphaned explores the huge task of cleaning up thousands of idle oil and gas wells...

China's sky-rocketing growth and shortage of sufficient resources is forcing China to set its sights outside its borders in a frantic search for oil,...

A documentary that follows Thomas Goltz and a group of riders on old Soviet motorcycles as they carry the first symbolic barrel of Caspian oil from...

JEEPNEY visualizes the richly diverse cultural and social climate of the Philippines through its most popular form of mass transportation: vividly...

The map of an American city goes on a quest across the world to find oil in order to feed its body, made of streets, highways and freeways.

What will it really take, to transition from oil and coal, to the energies of tomorrow? SWITCH goes where no film has gone before, deep into the...

When the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise set sail in 2013 to protest the first ever oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean, none of the people on board...

From Rockefeller's first oil wells in 1860 to the recent war in Iraq, oil has been the driving force behind the tragic history of the 20th century....